A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
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widespread
thin
commencing
happiness,
now, and of a piece with the days of your preferable to an anticipated heap far
life, is
away ^
now
in the future,
Why
and none now/
that's the
very thing I said just
as being the principle of all ephemeral
doers like myself.'
- 0, I
am
sorry to have parodied you,'
she said, with some confusion.
That
course.
is
'
Yes, of
what you meant about
not trying to be famous.*
And
she added,
with the quickness of conviction characterof her
istic
mind:
'There
ness in trying to be great.
is
much littleA man must
think a good deal of himself, and be conceited
he
enough
to believe in himself, before
tries at all.' '
But
harm
it
in a
himself
is
soon enough to say there
is
man's thinking a good deal of
when
it
is
j^roved
he has been
thinking wrong, and too soon then sometimes.
Besides,
we should not conclude
that a
man who
strives earnestly for success
